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  Using indigenous knowledge, remote sensing and GIS for sustainable development

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994

  Information describing the natural resources of any region (e.g. soil, water and vegetation) forms the base upon which sustainable development must be built. The twin challenges of providing information that can lead to sustainable development are to keep acquisition costs low and utility high.
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  Water resources managment: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  White Paper on Water Policy, South Africa

  African Water Page, 1999
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  Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa project

  Centre for Development Cooperation Services, Free University, Amsterdam, 1999

  Research project using participatory methods to improve the effectiveness of indigenous and modern soil and water conservation practices through a process of joint experimentation involving farmers, researchers, extension and NGO staff. Countries covered are Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
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  Directory of European Tropical Forest Research Institutions

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 1999

  The ETFRN Directory lists participants in the European Tropical Forest Research Network. It includes over 500 entries of organisations in EU member states which are involved in forest research in the Tropics, Subtropics and Mediterranean.
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  Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.
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  Sovereignty and Personal Rule in Zaire

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  How did Mobutu weather for so long the collapse of not only Zaire's state institutions, but also his presidential network of strongmen and aspiring politicians that really ran Zaire before the 1990s? And after Laurent Kabila finally removed Mobutu from power in May, 1997, how has the nature of state collapse under Mobutu influenced Kabila's own construction of authority?
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  The Geographic Scope of EC Aid: One or Several Development Policies?

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997

  This paper describes the origins of the EC development cooperation and its general characteristics.
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  Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analysis of the IMF’s role, and of the numerous failings in its performance to date.

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